Media Mentions

UC Davis Graduate Studies featured AMA Innovation Lab researcher Sam Bird on his work in eastern Africa. Bird is a Ph.D. candidate in agricultural and resource economics at UC Davis, and has worked extensively in Kenya and Uganda to understand factors that help to determine whether a farmer adopts more productive technologies.

On January 4, 2018, UC Davis featured AMA Innovation Lab director Michael Carter's new research on how social protection programs can support resilience among small-scale agriculturalists in developing economies.

In September, 2017, the Feed the Future blog featured two contributions from the AMA Innovation Lab for its #endhunger campaign that highlight the challenges and possible solutions for food insecurity worldwide.

On Sept. 11, 2017, the Feed the Future blog featured AMA Innovation Lab research on how bundling drought-tolerant maize and index insurance can deepen the impact of improved seed technologies can have on the livelihoods of poor farmers.

On August 15, 2017, Agrilinks featured an article about managing agricultural risk, including an AMA Innovation Lab project that involves building a phone-based digital crop trading platform in Uganda.